It is business as usual at the airport in Timmins, after workers there postponed a possible strike deadline of March 4 at 6 pm.
After meeting with mediators on Monday, both the City of Timmins and the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees issued statements that seemed to sing a different tune.
While the union said in its statement that progress had been made, the city said it was disappointed in the union's demand for a 12.8% wage increase over five years.
Dave Landers is the Chief Administrative Officer at City of Timmins.
“Unfortunately, the wage demand that they put forward wasn't something that we could bring back to council or that we could consider, given that it was well beyond what we've seen with any other collective agreement we've negotiated in recent years. Also, that it's well beyond what we're looking at in terms of cost of living increases." said Landers.
The CAO also said that the City of Timmins has applied to the Ministry of Labour to deem five positions essential should the union invoke its strike mandate.
He says any strike before that decision comes down would be illegal, so he feels there's no reason to think that March break travel plans would be affected by a work stoppage.
